Sorry, that's good to know. I was told strongly by MQ
Posted By: I couldn't do it. OP nm on 2006-08-21
In Reply to: You most certainly can! I did it successfully for 2 years. - oldtyper
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I strongly disagree with you.
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Strongly disagree. Maybe 17% but not 27% for sure!
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strongly disagree
and I'm not a newbie at radiology either
Strongly disagree
First of all, yes, they bought M-Tec -- now -- why would a company buy a school? I wonder what they pay students to do transcription. If one has 200 transcriptionists and buys a company with 100 students....how would the transcription be divided? Would they give the hardest transcription to the students?
I strongly agree and am not a recruiter either
specialty, then you will not have a problem with radiology. Radiology usually consists of a lot of normals (templates) and also like the other poster says redundant terms.
It's funny because my first MT job was radiology, and then I expanded into other diagnostic areas and learned some acute care along the way being in a hospital!
I would strongly advise you to reconsider
Please read all the archives here... too much to mention and the messages tend to get removed by the administrator because they are so bad. In a nutshell extremely unqualified management in most cases, promote friends and newbies to positions like team leads and QA, inconsistent and wrong QA half the time, on and on and on. Please don't bother with them. I promise you that you'll regret it if you do. Please read the archives here.
If you were my daughter, I'd strongly recommend SM
you go for it. Furthering one's level of education is an extremely wise move for anyone, you're ultimately setting a good example for your children, and a degree in nursing can be taken many directions, including right back home to type for a while if needed (but the Walmart option so many here seem to seriously consider will never need to be among them!).
Not recruiter but I do feel very strongly
you do not have the ability to be a transcriptionist, do not think you have the background, think you are evasive with your answers and think you are trying to appear such but don’t have the background training nor the job training. You said the first group very localized to acute care but you had trouble with other specialities and acute care is just that, all specialities. I think you are just blowing smoke to tell you the truth.
I strongly DON'T recommend Softscript
to anyone. Maybe they seem so good to you because MQ was so bad, but that doesn't mean they're good compared to other companies ;)
I strongly disagree; Transcend cares a lot for its employees
If you do not want to play the game, just ignore the e-mails. Or, you may find another company is better for you. No sense being miserable.
years ago (2001?) someone strongly steered me away from TRX Portland...she hated it. But that's h
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I don't hesitate to ask. Have been told "yes", and have been told "no." Never been to
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The best co. ever! Good work, good people, good pay, good bennies.
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Yes there is! Good pay and good bonuses and good benefits.
You are right, I told ek to do like ET...
Have they told you that you are going to
be a MEDICAL EDITOR? It's semantics, like the "MLS" title for a transcriptionist. Sounds really impressive to be called a "medical language specialist," but...HELLO...you're a TRANSCRIPTIONIST.
You are going to be nothing more than a custodian, cleaning up the junk that the "hookt on fonix" MACHINE REPLACING YOU has generated and for less money. If the dictators are half decent, you might be able to fly through a report in minimal time, but if you have to sift through the GARBAGE, only to wind up transcribing most of the job yourself, you are definitely going to lose money.
Do you eat only what you are told? If not, try them...
nm
Told me the same
Same bull came from Jennifer week to week.
THANK YOU! I'm usually told how I should RUN
and all kinds of upset stuff.
Thank you! I hope to someday!!!
What I was told
Here is what I was told when
I switched to DQS from Medrite.........
You actually were getting "free lines" on Medrite with the information that populated onto the (TES screen) actual report, for example, patient name, account#, MR#, dictators name, signing physician, address, etc. This accounted for about 6-8 lines per report. Needless to say, and I KNOW THIS FROM EXPERIENCE, a doctor could just hang up on that report and NOT SAY A SINGLE WORD and I would get paid those "free lines" because it was information that populated on the report.
With that being said, if you were typing 8-10 reports an hour, then multiply that by 6-8 for your "free lines" PER REPORT that would account for anywhere from 48 lines to 80 lines AN HOUR! Now, take that 48 to 80 lines per hour and multiply that by how many hours you work in a day. This is why and how you will see a decrease in your lines!
The problem is, is that with DQS, you ARE NOT PAID for the patient's name, account #, MR #, physician name, and so on. I believe this is where the misconception of DQS being a horrible platform and/or MQ screwing their MTs started.
All in all, I am able to type the same amount I was in Medrite per hour. The more you add to your word Expander and familiarize yourself with the platform, the better you will be.
Within a few weeks you will get used to it. I average 300 lines an hour and like DQS very much.
no but I was told that
people who were making a certain rate before DEP training were cut before the training. I heard this second hand from a girl in my class.
That's not what I was told when..sm
I went to work for them. You must be management.
They should not have told you that. sm
There are very few people in this industry that make that much money, especially working for national companies. Do you use a word Expander and do you use it at its fullest potential? The most I ever made was 52K working for a hospital making 10cpl per 57 character line. One other thing you might consider is trying to get your own accounts. Where you may now make 7-10 cpl working with a national, you can make 15-17 cpl with your own account, provided you can handle the workload. Unfortunately, they sometimes fail to tell you that in school. Good luck!
No. Not that they told me. SM
They just told me about the training that I would be going through and kind of just sketched through it. It seemed like they offered okay benefits, but the pay seemed fair. I was just seeing if anyone actually took this position and could tell me more about it. Radiology would be nice too.
Yep, was told would get
...another one, it would be added to my queue that day, but it never happened. This was three weeks ago. How many times should I ask before they get mad at me? It must be nice to be salaried and not have to worry about paying the bills.
they told me no, but when I got the sm
contract, there is a place on there that asks what hours you most likely will be working, so it is not set in stone. I understand that anybody likes to know something but I have talked to others who work for them and they have no problem. I am going to give them a 12 hour span when I could be in there. So far, they have answered my questions to my satisfaction. We will see when I get started. But, I am anticipating everything will be fine.
I was told that too.
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I know who you are and you have told me
that you never checked to see if they were correct in their calculations when you were an MT - you just assumed they were right. No wonder you've advanced to QA....LOL. They love people like you.
Who told you not to?
nm
No, I'm not SURE...but it was what I was TOLD. That's way better than the 90% I was doing at a
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What I was told.
I interviewed and with over 20 years experience, was offered 8 cpl for MT and was told that was their tops, but you can get a little extra for shift differential. Also 4 CPL for editing reports. This is not VR, but work transcribed overseas. I don't feel comfortable proofing work for oursourcing as I am patriotic and I feel the CPL is way too low for experienced help. I am turning it down.
Was doing that, but QA told me not to do it.
So I assumed it was staying in the document when sent to client/QA.
I did not think that it would do that. But how would QA know that I had viewed in the larger type if it did not stay that way.
Thanks.
my guy told me about 30%
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we were told
that nothing would change for the first 100 days, which we are in right now.
Were you told (sm)
by the Lead MT or the tech person that they were too busy? Be persistent and hopefully that will help.
I was told my
testing was so exceptional that they would waive the requirement that I pay the interviewer's hourly rate for the time she spent with me. I was gobsmacked, I tell ya.
What I was told about the OT...
There is really no way of getting out of doing the madatory OT. They sent out an e-mail some time back that said that anyone not doing their required OT would face disciplinary action. What I was told was that if you absolutely could not do it on a given day, they would allow you to skip that day, but you were required to double up the next day.
Hi, they told me they have......
nothing available right now ....................
Thank you. Like I told someone else, I have (sm)
been doing MT work since the 80's and NEVER had this kind of trouble learning a new program/account. Was thinking it was just me and I was getting too old or senile to do this anymore. Thanks.
They told me no they don't.
for clinic accounts anyway.
They told me they pay 25%
and it would cost me approximately $280 and couldn't tell me how much it would cost to add my kids on.
They told me that the pay is between 9-11 cpl
which is great! I make 9.5 where I am now, so hopefully I'll end up with around 10 cpl.
I have told her
And its not that I'm upset, I was offering an explanation to why YOU may always have OT and others on your account may have no work.
Told ya' so....
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I think I was told $300, could be different now
NM
If more of us said no and told them willing to
negotiate, pay might come back up, but there are too many out there that will take whatever is offered.
I was told that they pay anywhere from...
99 cents to $1.05 per report, regardless of length, which would not be bad if you got a lot of x-ray reports and not too many CTs, MRIs, etc. I would try asking on the MQ board. I get comments from the MQ board in my email(due to the alerts and I have set up) and respond to them all the time.
I think it told you how...sm
to go about getting your own accounts in the book.
I was told...
for now, they require 1100, but in the future it will probably go up to 1300. Yes, I have noticed the omission of clear words.
i was told. by them..sm
Only employee status. 7.5 cpl.
Do you believe everything you are told? nm
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